Day one – Laying down a core InDesign foundation
Introduction to the workspace
• Main menu bar
• Workspaces 
• Control panel
• Tool panel 
• Panels – pages, layers and links
• Strokes and swatches
• Document status
• Page navigation, preflight profile and preflight menu
Designing documents
• Creating a new document
• Print, mobile or web
• Number of pages
• Facing pages
• Columns
• Margins
• Bleed and slug
• What type of document – intent
• Setting up for print
• Setting for web 
• Setting for mobile
• Adding colours
• Rgb and CMYK
Working with frames
• What are frames?
• The types of frames – text, graphic and unassigned
• Creating text frames
• Creating graphic frames
• Creating unassigned frames
• Working with frames
• Creating text wrap
Using type and styles
• Selecting type
• Creating type frames
• Selecting type
• Insert placeholder
• Placeholder text
• Formatting type
• Paragraph styles
• Character styles
• Import styles from another InDesign document
• Working with CC libraries
Working with graphics
• Placing graphics into InDesign
• Basic placement methods
• Raster images (pixel-based)
• Vector images (mathematically based)
• Linked graphics
• Embed graphics
• Images for print 
• Images for screen/web 
• Positioning and resizing
• Autofit graphics into an existing frame
• Change size and position within a frame
• Changing frame sizes
• Transparency

Day two – Building on that foundation
Creating a multi-page document
• Create a new document
• Margins and columns
• For printed output
• For PDF production
• For delivery on the web or mobile devices
• Page sizes
• Orientation – landscape or portrait
• Page format
• Facing or non-facing
• Bleed and slug
• Master pages
• Repeating content
• Automatic page numbering
Working with layers
• Why use layers
• Locking layers
• Creating layers
• Layers panel
• Moving content to different layers
• Hide layer 
• Lock layers
Working with threaded text
• Importing text
• Formats of text
• Copy and paste text
• Import Microsoft Word text without style sheets
• Import Microsoft Word text with style sheets 
• Placeholder text
• Overset text
• Threading text
• Threading options
Links and output
• Linking graphics
• re-linking graphics
• Links panel
• Preflight panel
• PDF for email and web
• PDF/X-1a
• PDF for print 
• Create profiles for different printers

Day one – Developing knowledge – building on what we know
Managing your workspace
• Advanced zooming and navigation
• Advanced view options
• Focus selection for formatting
• Changing tools (without changing)
Layers
• Why use layers
• Sub Layers
• Locking layers
• Duplicating layers
• Moving Objects between
Grids – multiple frames
• Creating grid layouts
• Creating multiple frames
• Adding multiple images
• Using graphic styles
Frame fitting options
• Using content-aware-fit options
• Default frame fitting
• Manual frame fitting
• Applying frame fitting
• Linking frames to object styles
Anchored objects
• Inline objects
• Anchoring object options
• Setting the anchor
• Applying an object style
Next styles
• Logic of next styles
• Using next styles
• Applying next styles
Nested styles
• Logic of next styles
• Using next styles
• Applying next styles
Tables of content
• Using table of contents
• Creating a table of contents style
• Editing a table of contents

Day two – Refining and utilising your new skills
Tables of data
• Importing data
• Creating a table
• Modifying a table
• Formatting a table
Table and cell styles
• Creating cell styles
• Creating table styles
• Applying table styles
• Style tips and tricks
Fixing formatting
• Using advanced find/change
• Using scripts to perform GREP
• Understanding the logic of queries
Spot colours
• Create new Pantone swatches
• Spot or process considerations
Live preflight
• Live preflight
• Defining profiles
• Importing and exporting
• Embedding profiles
PDF export standards
• PDF/X ISO standards
• Colour transformations
• Registration marks
• Trim and bleed
Data merge
• Creating a data set
• Formatting data merge
• Merging data
• Formatting options